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Time: 11:14pm, Momo Paradise Shinjuku Higashi-guchi

Everyone was really here, Izuku had finally seen his old peers after almost a decade of being in and out of contact with them. They never left him, they just got busy with their lives. He understands. He's been busy with work because school is starting up again in a couple weeks. Izuku has been preparing so so many thing for himself, his students as well as his colleagues. He could finally take a break and catch up with his friends.

A group of them had come together and formed a plan to all meet together and this restaurant in Tokyo. (Real restaurant btw) Ashido, Tsu, Yaomomo, Kirishima and surprisingly, Katsuki. Once they had the plan set, they were all given people to invite and fortunately everyone accepted!

Finally, Izuku found the table Yaomomo had reserved for everyone. He had come later than most due to work, but everyone welcomed him warmly. 

"AHHHH HI DEKU!", Uraraka exclaimed. She got up from the table and ran to hug him, he hugged back of course. They stayed in the hug for a moment before letting go, they chatted for some time before Uraraka walked back to her seat. Izuku saw that she had saved him a seat between her and Iida. Iida was sitting next to Todoroki and Uraraka was sitting next to Ashido, while Izuku was in the direct middle. 

Even though he arrived late, there was an empty seat across from him, next to Kirishima and Kaminari. As soon as Izuku saw the empty seat, he noticed Kirishima and Kaminari noticing him. They mad diraft eye contact and both the men on the edge smiled brightly. Izuku did as well once he saw their smiles.

Kaminari got up first and made his way around the table to Izuku, followed by Kirishima. " Hey man! How've you been?" Kirishima asked with a hug. "Oh not much, just working at U.A mainly." Kirishima and Kaminari look at each other before giggling. "Oh yeah, that all?" Kaminari says as he go to his phone. 'What is he talking about??' Izuku thinks, he doesn't remember much besides just......oh god no. Before he can register what they're referencing, a picture of Izuku on the cover CLUÉL Homme magazine.

Izuku was immediately mortified and hang his head down is his hands, shaking it in shame. Kaminari and Kirishima were still giggling as not to disrupt the restaurant. Ashido has heard the laughing and timed her head back to see what the commotion was. She saw the picture of Izuku on Kaminari's phone from her seat, and she immediately bolted up and over to Izuku. "OH. EM. GEEEEEE. I remember when this came out, me and my agency were all screaming our faces off. Because 1. Look at you and 2. LOOK AT YOU!!" She screamed but quickly shut up as she could tell people were looking at them. 

"ʜᴇʜ...sᴏʀʀʏ.." Ashido whispered. She put her finger over her lips as a promise to shut up. When Izuku turned back to look at the two men. He turned back to no one, he looked around for a second before Todoroki pointed to the door for him. 

There they were, they were greeting Katsuki at the door when he had finally arrived. Izuku stared for a second too long and Katsuki saw. Katsuki definitely saw it. How does Izuku know? Because as soon as they looked eyes, Katsuki blurted out something to his friends and rushed to somewhere else.

'What the hell?' Izuku asked himself. When the two came back, Izuku asked them what had happened. "I don't know, bakubro looked really scared for some reason before he left" Kirishima shrugged. "Yeah we don't know, he just said hi and talked for a second before he blurted out that he needed to use the restroom." Kaminari added on. 

Izuku thought about what they had said for a moment before he decided to walk to the men's restroom to try to go and find Katsuki.

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Time: 10:42pm, driving to Momo Paradise Shinjuku Higashi-guchi

As he was driving to the location Yaomomo had sent him, he couldn't help but feel anxious, too anxious. Shouldn't he feel excited that he was gonna finally gonna be able to see Izuku? His best friend who he hasn't seen much since their graduation? He wish he felt as excited as he was anxious.

The drive was only 20 minutes or so but it felt like a millennium for Bakugo. He approached the restaurant and parked his car near the back as to not be seen so easily. He tried to calm himself in his car for sometime but nothing came out it. He checked the time and realized it had already been ten minutes. 'God damnit, if I stay in here any longer I won't be able to say hi to anyone, not even the fucking perv' he cursed to himself. Finally, he worked up the courage to get out of the car and walk into the building. 

He exited the car, and slowly made his way to the doors. He walked as slow as he could, if someone saw him and didn't how scared he was they probably would've thought he was having a stroke. Up to the front doors he came, he stood for a minute or so before stepping forward until he saw two livings assholes he couldn't have wished more to see in that moment, but he would never say that to their faces.

"Bakubrooo! How's it going man?" "Yeah man, whats good!" The ani asked, "Not much, why the hell do you care asshats?" Bakugo questioned with a grimace on his face. "Oh Bakugo Bakugo Bakugo, when you soften up on us man?" Kaminari said with a sarcastic grin, throwing his shoulder over Bakugo, Kirishima following along. "Come on, you're gonna show us your food side one of these days, you gotta" Kirishima added with a smirk. "I ain't telling you extras shit". The three men entered the restaurant again together as a trio. 

As Kaminari and Kirishima kept pestering and teasing Bakugo and softening up on them and all that other shit, a certain someone caught his eye from across the floor. Izuku Midoriya, god dammit. This guy will be the death of me (chapter 362). Before Kaminari could get another insult out of him, Bakugo shouted "RESTROOM" and left the two alone in the corridor. Bakugo made it to the restroom, before his panic started to set in. He had finally Realized that he couldn't easily escape this, not only that but he didn't want to escape. He wanted to be near Izuku, talking, drinking together, even just near him he wanted it so bad.

Bakugo didn't understand his feelings until they had already graduated, and even if he understood them back then, nothing would have changed. He would have been a pro hero and Izuku would be working at U.A teaching the next generation. God, he was always so jealous of Izuku no matter what he did or didn't do. He didn't become a hero, he become a teacher and sacrificed his standings in the hero rankings. How selfless and admiral is that of him. A lot more admiral that whatever Bakugo had ever done. He's so selfish for taking the chance to be a hero and failing. He's so selfish for taking all might's power away. He so selfish for going past his limits just to die and be a burden to edge shot. God, he's so selfish. Bakugo goes into a small stall and brings his knees up onto the toilet seat so no one can see his shoes. Just then, he hears someone walk into the restroom.

"Katsuki? Are you in here? Are you okay?" Of course it's Izuku, it's always Izuku. He's so caring, thats one of the many reasons Bakugo fell so hard for him. But he doesn't respond, he can't, even if he wanted to his voice is cut off by his racing thoughts. Izuku checked the stalls, opening them one by one until he came across a locked at all with no feet to be seen. Yeah, what he did next wasn't the best option but screw it, if it meant finding Katsuki he didn't care. He put his hands and knees on the restroom floor and tilted his head until the stall door. "Found you" he said with a soft smile on his face. That smile takes away all his bad thoughts and is filed with memorys and fantasies of just him, and Izuku. "Yeah, good job Izuku" Bakugo whispered. Izuku could clearly tell something wasn't right, why would Katsuki congratulate him on such a simple task. Unless he's just being nice, no, he was too quiet for that to be a nice sentiment. He's upset about something.

"Whats wrong Katsuki?" Izuku inquiried "nothing, I'm fine. Go hang out with your friends." Bakugo said turning his head away. "But, Katsuki, you're my friend too" Izuku said with glee. "God, you sound like you're the main character of a shonen" he laughed. (wink wink) "Please tell me whats wrong, I wanna help. I haven't seen you in so long and the first time I see you again, you seem so sad." They both sat for a couple of seconds before Bakugo for up, and unlocked the door. Izuku crawled back up to his feet and met Bakugo face to face. Bakugo breathed a heavy but shallow breathe in and our before he spoke. "I'm scared, okay. I'm scared of seeing you all again. I haven't seen any of you in so long and I'm scared to say something bad, or what if I'm not close you, or Kirishima or Kaminari or-" Bakugo was cut off with a hand over his mouth before he could keep rambling. "Katsuki, I promise you it's not like that. Kaminari and Kirishima greeted you at the door didn't they, and didn't I come to find you?" He said looking hopefully at Bakugo. Bakugo nodded in agreement. "So why don't you come back out with me and say hi to everyone?" Izuku took his hand off of Bakugo mouth, with some sweat from Bakugo's breath latched to his hand.

"I need to tell you something, and I swear to God if you laugh I will kick you all the back into middle school." He growled with a finger in Izuku's face. "Since I'm being honest or whatever..." a long pause filled the restroom until he spoke again "I don't really like it when you......i don't really like it when you call me Katsuki" Izuku was shocked and hurt but he tried not to show it in his face, "oh okay, so..would you like me to call you Bakugo ins-" "I want you to call me Kacchan." Silence. "You want me to call you Kacchan?" Bakugo nodded in silence again. "Why do you want me to call you that?" Izuku asked dumbfounded.

Bakugo was beginning to shake, like literally, you could see his legs and arms shake along with his head. "God, never fucking mind." He headed for the door in a fit of embarrassment. "Uh uh. We're not leaving till you tell me what's really going on" Izuku blocked the door and locked ur behind him. Izuku is leaning on the door with Bakugo in front of him in absolute agony. 1. He's never seen Izuku that confident, holy shiiiiit and 2. Now he's trapped, with Izuku.

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"We're not stepping one foot through this door until you tell me what's really going on with you." Izuku stated like it was a fact, well, it was a fact because 1. Izuku is stronger without a quirk than Katsuki is without his and 2. Katsuki doesn't wanna hurt Izuku after so long.

"Goddamn it Izuku, we don't have time for this, we're gonna miss dinner!!" Katsuki shouted in his usual tone. "Well that sucks for us than. Just tell me and maybe we'll have some time to get all the food and drinks we want" Izuku said with a cocky tone. 'This son of a bitch, when the hell did he get so damn confident!!' Katsuki had thought to himself while grinding his teeth in a fit of rage and embarrassment. He took a moment to breathe and thought of a compromise.

"Fine, I'll tell you-" Izuku smirked, "but first you have to tell me something that's embarrassing." Izuku frowned. He looked at Katsuki before stating his confession, "well, since we're in the subject of nicknames..." he hesitated and his foot began to bounce just like a rabbit's when they're having a tantrum. "I wish you hadn't stopped calling my Deku, look I know it's meant to be an insult but I liked how you still called my Deku whilst everyone else called me by my real name, it made me feel important. That you kept insisting I was a Deku, instead of just Izuku or Midoriyia."

He looked back to Katsuki who's jaw was slightly open, pinkish cheeks and wide eyes. "AHHH!! NO, I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT. WAIT NO, WAIT LIKE WHAT?? I DONT KNOW WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY." Izuku whined as he realized what he had just confessed. "It's fine, I understand exactly what you're feeling" Katsuki whispered, just loud enough for Izuku to hear over his whining. "I understand what you're feeling because, the reason I want you to call me Kacchan again is for the same reason. It makes me feel more important to you than those extr-" he paused "than the others. I've liked the nickname ever since you gave it to me."

There was a couple seconds of silence, bustling could be heard from outside the door. Izuku heard some of his friends talking in the other side, specifically Ochaco who he could here close by. Shit, was she checking up on him?? Izuku glanced at Katsuki's eyes before looking back at the ground, he unlocked the door and gestured for Kacchan to leave first.

Kacchan made no effort to look at Deku and sped out the door, bumping into Uraraka accidentally. "Sorry." He blurted out before going to his designated seat. Ochaco started at Bakugo, than back to Izuku. "What happened." She inquired "Oh nothing, we just had a litt-" Izuku said quick before being cut off by Ochaco. "don't give me that bullshit Izuku, even a first year could see through your lies." She said to him, poking him in his shoulder. "Tell me what really happened" 

Izuku sighed, took a deep breathe in and out and proceeded to tell Ochaco all of what had happened in the bathroom. The entire time she had her finger to her chin like she was analysing the situation. "Sounds to me you guys are just two old friends who need to have a conversation about some things" she said with a soft smile, and dark eyes. "I know that look, what 'things' do you mean Ochaco" he scowled at her while doing air quotations. "From all of the years I have known you Izuku, I don't think I've ever seen you this goddamn dense. The 'things' I'm talking about, is the tension between you and Bakugo. You know damn well it's there, I'm going to be 100% honest and say that when I had lost feelings for you, I took time to reflect and I realized I only liked the hero aspect of you, not you romantically" "wait you had a crush on me??"

"Yeah but I am way over you, oof I hope you didn't like me because what I just said is kinda heartbreaking...but you didn't right." Ochaco asked after she realized what she said "eh, I thought you were cute but I don't think I had any romantic feelings for you either to be honest." "Okay good, anyways back to what I was saying. After I had reflected in my feelings and lost interest in you, I began to see how alike me and Bakugo acted towards you. But his was different, he of course wanted you to succeed but I also saw how he sacrificed things for you and vice versa."

"No no, haha, you got it all wrong. That's just me and Kacchan being friends." Izuku laughed, waving his hands as to disregard her statement and she just looked at him with annoyance. "What!" "What do you mean what? What you just said is utter bullshit, I don't think 'just friends' sacrifice their lives, literally and figuratively." Ochaco said one last time. "Okay Izuku, I'm going back to the table, I swear to God if you don't talk to Bakugo tonight I'll make you my personal bitch, got it?!" Ochaco shouted with Izuku's shirt in her shirt. "Haha, yes ma'am.." He said weakly. Ochaco let go of his shirt and hugged him before walking back to her seat. Izuku stood in front of the restroom for a second before going back to his seat, in front of Kacchan.

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Izuku returned to his seat, safely. He look across the table and sees Kacchan ordering his food from the waitress, she seems around our age, maybe younger. It's easy to see, even for people at other table, that she's shamelessly flirting with him. Whatever, it's not Izuku's problem, but he is extremely bothered.

The waitress walks aroud the entire table to get everyone's drink order. Some people got classic wine, some got sake, some got whisky sours, etc. so the order takes a while, mostly everyone talks and catches up with others talks with Iida and Todoroki who had into told Izuku and Uraraka they had been dating for almost a year now. (Yes this is a todoiida sneak), Iida tells Izuku about how Uraraka had set them up on a blind date because she said she "saw the vision" it whatever, but I'm glad she set us up" Iida said with a smile as he held Todoroki's hand under the table.

It was too risky to tell the whole class at the same time they were dating, they're planning to tell the others on their first anniversary. "Hey Uraraka, do you like anyone?" Izuku asked, she paused for a second to think, "hmmm, not at the moment, I'm not really into romance if I'm being honest. I like the idea of being in a relationship but I just don't get it. If I'm being honest I just like having friends with benefits, it's nice having someone I can trust and have fun with, you know?" Izuku was surprised at her answer but non-judgementak if course,

"unfortunately not, I'm probably one of the most sentimental people I know. I can't have a relationship without romance" Izuku said sighing, "yet I haven't found anyone who can in my range or needs, like example, I like to take things slow usually unless I already know that person really well, but I don't know a lot of people very well outside of you guys. God I'm such a loser, haha" he said putting his chin on his hand, "nooo, you're not a loser, you just love a different way that's all. I don't really have much romantic love so we're going through similar things, even if they may be the opposite. 

Izuku smiled and layed his head in her shoulder, "thanks Ochaco". "I'll always be here for you Izuku" she said holding his hand, "yeah, me too". He could feel eyes on him but he didn't care, he was so comfortable just here, it felt like home after being abroad for 100 years. They stayed like that for a moment before straightening back up.

The drinks had finally come, and then the waitress began to take everyone's main orders. Izuku drank his quite fast, a lot faster than his friends and quickly got a  which he drank through quick too. It took a lot to get him just buzzed since he was constantly working out, same with everyone else.

He had four drinks before he felt his face get hot and his vision getting distorted. When he had noticed the change he giggled to himself. He looked around him to see who else had gotten some change. He looked to Uraraka who was laughing with Tsu loudly like two high school girls, good they deserve this. He looked to Mineta who was walking around the restaurant talking random samples from the other waiters. Then, he looked to Kacchan who seemed just as buzzed as he was.

He waved to Kacchan who waves back with a smile, Deku laughed and began talking to Kacchan about whatever the hell was on his mind. Hero rankings, new semester coming up, college, his feelings, his fears, his lust, what he ordered, his favorite drink, music, his fantasies, his- wait back up what. His fantasies? His lust?? Deku started at Kacchan after he caught himself, Kacchan looked so longingly. He looked, so calm. He had never seen Kacchan this calm, the only other time he had seen him calm was after the war. He changed so much after the war, good change but still change non the less. 

"Are you okay, Kacchan?" Izuku slurred, Kacchan looked up with almost puppy dog eyes, "yeah I'm good, how are you Deku?" Deku smiled softly, "I'm great". Kacchan moved his foot to Deku's foot, and Deku moved his foot along Kacchan pant leg up to his crotch, just then waitress had come back and they were knocked back to reality.

Iida order everyone at the table some water along with a couple baskets of bread to sober up some, thanks class prez. Izuku drank his water, ate his bread before he feasted on his meal. His mind became more clear with help from the water, thank God he did not need a hang over tomorrow on top of everything else. But, he still felt giddy. Their shoes were still touching, neither of them had moved. Not up, not away. They just stayed there for most of the dinner, most of it. Izuku had order two more drinks, fucking idiot. Other people did too okay, don't be too mad he still had bread and water so he was tipsy but not borderline drunk. He pushed his seat his forward more and moved his foot up Kacchan pants again, this time he finally got up to his crotch.

He gently rubbed Kacchan's crotch in circular motions, under the table he could feel Kacchan's leg bouncing. I would assume with arousal and embarrassment, how cute. He than took it a step forward and presses the tip of his show into his crotch, he saw and heard Kacchan squeal. No one noticed, or no one bothered to look. Deku continued the same motions till Kacchan became physically unstable. He pulled his foot away and returned back to his food. 

Kacchan quietly controlled his breathing before giving Deku a glare that he couldn't help but smile at. Everyone was so focused on their food and the others that they didn't notice Katsuki and Izuku go to the restroom together. Kacchan was gripping Deku by his wrist and pushed him the bathroom, this time he locked the door. "The fuck was that?" "What was what" he said he was a fake pout. "You jackass, what the hell did you do that for?!"

Deku didn't respond for a couple seconds "Do you like me?". "What" "do you have feelings for me" he said again with a somewhat sad look. Kacchan didn't hesitate, or maybe he didn't think but he immediately responded with a "yes, I..I have romantic feelings for you and I have for some time now." He said with his head up and to avoid eye contact with Deku. Once he for control of his thoughts he said, "Do you like me?". Izuku took a breathe, "I don't know what romantic feelings are exactly but, I'm pretty sure I do. Ive admired for as long as I can remember, and this is gonna sound embarrassing but I've had...fantasies of us. Romantic and sᴇxᴜᴀʟ.."

He gulped, God his face was so hot, his hands were so sweaty, his pants were getting a little too tight and from what he could see, Kacchan's were too. "Well, I've had fantasies too. Both romantic and sexual too. I think I've liked you since first year of U.A but I only realized them after graduation, terrible timing I know." He confessed to Deku's face. Both of their faces grew redder every second. "I think I've liked you since, forever to by honest, I thought it was just admiration, but it became more around the same time you developed feelings. You changed so much and it made me feel differently about you, a lot different.

Deku took a step forward and held his hand. Kacchan didn't step back, or lean in closer. This was all he needed. Izuku then hugged him, Kacchan hugged back. They both stayed like that for a while, breathing in each other's cologne and natural musk. Kacchan wanted to bite and lick Deku's neck so fucking bad, but, he didn't want to ruin this beautiful moment. Little did he know Deku wanted the exact same thing but didn't want to ruin this beautiful moment.